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jaw in most positions of the head, and is a most 

 dehcately organiezd structure, and therefore soon 

 thrown out of order, causing the above noises in 

 moving. Now there is a disease called the Stran- 

 gles affecting young horses, in which a gathering 

 or abscess takes place in the space between the 

 jaws, and therefore close to this delicate box, the 

 'larynx.' During the time the abscess is ripen- 

 ing there is necessarily great inflammation about 

 this box, and if it lasts unduly long by being 

 treated by so-called 'home' remedies, or worse 

 still by the farrier, the inflammation is apt to 

 injure the delicate httle muscles of which the 

 box is partly composed, and leave the animal a 

 ' roarer.' 



39. — All badly treated gatherings or abscesses 

 are apt to leave behind them two evidences of 

 their former presence, viz: thickening of the skin 

 and parts beneath, and ragged scars. Therefore, 

 always look for these between the jaws of a 

 horse. The skin in this situation should be fine, 

 the hair silky, and you ought to be able to bury 

 your stretched out hand, laid lengthwise back 

 uppermost, in this space: or, in other words, see 

 that the space between the jaws be not flush with 

 the lower borders of the jaw. 



40. — The ears, forming part of the head, may 

 here be noticed. They ought not to be too large, 

 indeed they can hardly be too small. They vary 

 in shape shghtly, but very httle. 



